[Haskell-cafe] Re: Type system madness

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:15:34PM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> wnoise:
> > On 2007-07-14, Donald Bruce Stewart <dons at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> > > not in base, but see utf8-string on hackage.haskell.org.
> > 
> > Yes, this a decent layering of (2), on top of (1), for GHC only,
> > depending on it to reading the bytes, and interpreting them as Latin-1.
> 
> Yeah, we can also layer it on Data.ByteString, which uses the FFI to
> avoid relying on any latin-1 behviour.

Actually, it uses hGetBuf, which is in base and already specified to
return raw bytes.

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hGet h i = createAndTrim i $ \p -> hGetBuf h p i
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Stefan
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